Stories of Surrender

Details

Initially published: 2025-05-16
Author: Bono

Description

Bono’s book Surrender was reissued as a soft cover for the UK, Irish, USA, and Canadian markets in 2025. It now features the title Stories of Surrender and is an abridged version of the book. The book includes a new introduction by Bono titled “A Tale of Two Shows: Intro Music” includes 27 of the original 40 chapters. The afterword is also updated from the 2022 version of the book.

The following are the chapters included:

  • Lights of Home
  • Out of Control
  • Iris (Hold Me Close)
  • Cedarwood Road
  • Stories for Boys
  • I Will Follow
  • 11 O’Clock Tick Tock
  • Invisible
  • October
  • Two Hearts Beat as One
  • Sunday Bloody Sunday
  • Bad
  • Where the Streets Have No Name
  • With or Without You
  • Desire
  • Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
  • The Showman
  • Pride (in the Name of Love)
  • Beautiful Day
  • Vertigo
  • Every Breaking Wave
  • I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For
  • Love is Bigger Than Anything in its Way
  • Moment of Surrender
  • Landlady
  • Breathe

The book ends with some After words as well. A total of 27 chapters are included in this new abridged version of the book. The original had included 40 chapters. It will also feature a new cover, which matches that in use for the Stories of Surrender film and the “Stories of Surrender” EP.

Promotion of Book

This new version of the book accompanied a film release of the Bono: Stories of Surrender on Apple TV+, and was also promoted by an EP under the same name, “Stories of Surrender“

On June 26 it was announced that a limited number of signed copies of this book were available in three shops:

  • Skylight Books, 1818 N Vermont Ave., Los Angeles
  • Strand Book Store, 828 Broadway, New York
  • Rough Trade East, 91 Brick Ln., London

Known Physical Editions

  • Canada: Stories of Surrender
    • Publisher: Anchor Books
      • Format: Soft Cover, ISBN: 978-0385702799 (2025-05-27)
  • Italy: Stories of Surrender
    • Publisher:Oscar / Mondadori
    • Translation: Michele Piumini
      • Format: Soft Cover, ISBN: 978-88-04-783022 (2025-11-04)
  • United Kingdom (and Ireland): Stories of Surrender
    • Publisher: Penguin Books
      • Format: Soft Cover, ISBN: 978-1529160598 (2025-05-20)
  • United States: Stories of Surrender
    • Publisher: Vintage Books
      • Format: Soft Cover, ISBN: 979-8217008230 (2025-05-27)

Note on release dates: The book dates are as above, however, stores were not embargoed to sticking with these dates, so once received it could be sold, resulting in numerous reports of the book being available ahead of these dates.